BACKGROUND The most common cause of death among people with obesity are cardiovascular complications as a result of a hypercoagulability state. OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to assess the potential of coagulation system activation depending on the tissue factor and to analyze of the influence of a 3-week low-calorie diet and balneological treatment on selected coagulation parameters...

Three commercially available kits for 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D [1,25(OH)2D] determination were compared with a liquid-chromatographic method. Serum samples were analyzed for 1,25(OH)2D from 70 healthy subjects (age 2.2-17.5 years; 35 males, 35 females), some (n = 5) given orally high vitamin D3 doses. In addition, 1,25(OH)2D was measured in 28 patients with untreated diseases associated with low...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The genetic variant (Trp64Arg) is a missense mutation located within the beta3 adrenoreceptor (Beta3AR). The aim of our study was to investigate the influence of Trp64Arg polymorphism in the Beta3AR gene on insulin resistance in obese patients and the allelic distribution of this polymorphismin a geographic area of Spain. DESIGN A population of 264 obese patients was ...

BACKGROUND Korea has the highest suicide rate in the OECD and is one of the few OECD countries whose suicide rates have not decreased in recent years. To address these issues, we investigated the effects of weight control failure on suicidal ideation in the overweight and obese populations. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional study using data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Ex...

INTRODUCTION Obesity can cause deleterious effects on respiratory function and impair health and quality of life. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of obesity on the pulmonary function of adult women. METHODS An obese group, constituted of 20 women between 20 and 35 years old with a BMI of 35 - 49.99 kg/m(2) who were non-smokers and sedentary and had no lung disease were recruited. The non-...

Abstract Context Obesity surveillance is scarce in adolescents, and little known on whether salivary metabolomics data, emerging minimally invasive biomarkers, can characterize metabolic patterns associated with overweight or obesity adolescents. Objective This pilot study aims to identify the molecular signatures body mass index (BMI) Italian Methods Saliva samples BMI were collected a subset ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of individual risk factors for metabolic syndrome as well as the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003-2006. METHODS The analytic sample consisted of 3,423 adults, 20 years of age and over, from NHANES 2003-2006. The National Cholesterol Education Program's Adult ...

BACKGROUND The effect of adolescent overweight on future adult coronary heart disease (CHD) is not known. METHODS We estimated the prevalence of obese 35-year-olds in 2020 on the basis of adolescent overweight in 2000 and historical trends regarding overweight adolescents who become obese adults. We then used the CHD Policy Model, a state-transition computer simulation of U.S. residents who a...

Obesity and asthma are associated, but the mechanism(s) of the association have yet to be elucidated. The aim of this study was to assess airway inflammation in relation to obesity and plasma fatty acids in males and females with and without asthma. Obese (n=68) and nonobese (n=47) adults with asthma, and obese (n=16) and nonobese (n=63) healthy controls had induced sputum and venous blood samp...

Background. The aim of the present study was to examine sources of variation for serum cystatin C in a healthy Greek population. Methods. Cystatin C together with basic clinical chemistry tests was measured in a total of 490 adults (46 ± 16 yrs, 40% males) who underwent an annual health check. Demographic, anthropometric, and lifestyle characteristics were recorded. Results. Higher values of cy...